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Katy Perry just premiered her latest video, Dark Horse! and along with the crazy beautiful makeup, she also had beautiful trendy nails to match. Here's the 3 Nail Polish looks that Katy Perry uses in her Dark Horse video!

1. Outline Nails (or Border Nails)

2. Striped Nails

3. Hieroglyphics Nails

Katy Perry most likely used pre-painted press on nails. The reason for this is that often music videos are shot in its entirety in one night-that can be up to 14-18 hours of straight shooting. As a result, it is much more convenient to have pre-painted press on nails which can be easily removed. You can tell that they are press on in the 2nd screenshot (stripped nails). You cando a similar look by buying blank press on nails to do your artwork. Press on nails can be purchased at any beauty salon store or online such as Amazon (you can always paint over french manicure press on nails, as long as you use a thickcoat). However, the work can be easily done with a little time and patience on your own natural nails.

I've bought a lot of Zoya online (I usually wait until there's a sale - they just did a buy 3/get 3 not that long ago) and have had really good luck with buying them there. I'll read their FB page sometimes and have seen people say they got a bottle that broke while in shipment and Zoya seems pretty good about sending a replacement out, if that's something you're worried about.

what do you mean by not being able to trust buying polish online? if you mean not being able to see the colour in real life, well there's literally hundreds of nail polish blogs out there and you can easily find swatches of the collection on them, especially a big brand like zoya.

It's not that at all, I love Zoya's nail polish and I trust the colors, I'm just afraid of the bottle breaking when it gets mailed out. I live in an apartment and sometimes the mail person here is pretty careless with stuff.

if a local shop doesn't have them I always just google the brand + color and look at google images because usually there's some blogger who's used it and reviewed it, and it provides a better idea of color and such. Overall though Zoya is pretty awesome. I'd say half my polish collection is Zoya because I always take advantage of their bogo email offers. I love the pixie dust collection especially but I'm crazy for matte glitter lol

I have the same problem. I started using gloves while doing the dishes, taking biotin and giving my nails a breather from nail polish every once in a while.

they still break and chip away in layers. whenever I put argan oil on my fingers/nails and massage them in, they get quite strong. they start breaking off again whenever I get lazy and don't use the argan oil.

This sounds really weird but I have always had super soft nails until I went on this craazy carrot binge and ate like tons of them all of the time for snacks, also drank a ton of water and my nails were the best they have ever been. I stopped doing both of those and they went back to shit.

you might want to try a calcium + d3 formula for a couple weeks and see it helps (it should make difference within a week, since nails are really fast growing)biotin can only accelerate hair/nail growth, it won't make them stronger if you're deficient in calcium.

Nailtiques! I have super soft nails that literally split and chip if I pick something up the wrong way or hit them against a hard surface. Tried all the Sally Hansen Hard-As-Nails over the years and they didn't do jack. Orly Daily Defense actually made my nails crumble and split like crazy. Nailtiques is what I used to fix the damage.

Orly DD damage vs one month of Nailtiques formula 2+ (sorry big pic):

I'm now using formula 2 for maintenance. I always keep a coat on my nails, either alone or as base for color. It works beautifully as a top coat, too.

Sometimes it's good to "shock" the skin with a new product to get the residue and grime that your regular cleanser isn't getting. I'd rather use a masque once in a while than switch between whole bottles of cleanser and do that kind of trial and error. But I don't want to use a masque if it's all just a bunch of fancy words to mean that it's only going to be drying.